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The Product Interview?—?A Technical Exercise

The Product Coalition

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. This can be highly useful for hiring managers, as well as for PMs planning their roadmap. There’s been so much written, including by myself, about product management interviews.

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Decoding Product Leadership

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[ Instead, it must be earned.

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What Went Wrong For The Peloton Product Managers?

The Accidental Product Manager

The Peloton product managers were unable to predict the future Image Credit: Phillip Pessar How great would it be to be a product manager who was responsible for a very popular high priced exercise bike? This is the position that the Peloton product managers found themselves in just before the pandemic hit.

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Premortems in product management; why pessimism pays

Mind the Product

Why premortem exercises can be an excellent way to identify potential risks that might affect the success of your product launch Read more » The post Premortems in product management; why pessimism pays appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Five Ways to Use Product Management Best Practices

As you move into the new year you can help your product team prepare for success by exercising those product leadership muscles and implementing product management best practices. Here are our top tips for how you can lay the right foundations and get your product strategy off to a flying start.

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Mirror, mirror on the wall, how is product management performing?

Mind the Product

In this guest post, Sigi Osagie explains why KPIs should provide a view of product management’s status and progress from several perspectives and reveal the organisational health of the function. Contemplating what true product management success means is a valuable exercise. appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Managers Discover Older Customers

The Accidental Product Manager

If the answer is “nothing”, then you are like many other product managers who have not taken the time to study their customers and customize their products for their unique needs. Older Customers Product managers know that older customers have long complained that products designed for them are clunky and unattractive.

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Go to the Cloud: How Product Managers Can Lead a Cloud Transformation

Speaker: Stephanie Lewandowski, Senior Product Manager, Teachstone

However, moving your product to the Cloud is not a simple lift-and-shift exercise. As the product manager, you need to know the best way to lead the team in this transformation while avoiding common pitfalls. Cloud offers great flexibility, increased security, and more innovation opportunities.

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How Product Managers Can Define a Product Vision to Guide Their Team

Speaker: Christian Bonilla, VP of Product Management at UserTesting

Defining the product vision is a high-stakes exercise, which makes it all the more important to avoid some common pitfalls product managers encounter: confusing the company’s vision with their product vision, defining a vision that’s too abstract to be useful in strategic planning, or combining the “what” and the “how” in the product vision.